Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Your Montreal Playoffs Primer

I was originally going to write an exhaustive guide to watching the playoffs for people who don't watch hockey during the regular season. But it was really, really long, and my friend Robyn wrote a nice little concise one over at All Habs. As have a lot of people. So much for being the only person who thought of this!

Instead, I'm just going to focus on one thing that will inevitably be mentioned now that the Habs are in the playoffs. If you learn only two things about how to behave during the postseason:

1. Do not make jokes about riots. Don't laugh at them unless they're actually funny.

2. More importantly, do not riot. If you're downtown after a major Habs win, feel free to party and/or hug as many strangers as you want. Just don't set anything on fire, or hit anyone, or break anything. Hockey doesn't somehow change laws. You're just going to make us all look bad and explain to our non-hockey-fan bosses that it's only the psychos or the opportunists who get violent. Plus, usually these things happen after the Habs win a series, and then they lose the next series, so basically you're destroying both public property and the Habs' chance at a Stanley Cup.

So don't do it. Just enjoy springtime in Montreal, and all of the happy that comes with having a hockey team in the playoffs.

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that's what she said

Rookieisno longer ~czechtacular's protegee, no matter what she tells you, she's the one running the show around here, having been raised from the ranks of "Souray, he's the one that has a really mean slapshot, right?" to Outstanding TV-Hockey Analogist in a mere two years, and hasn't stopped since. According to Rookie, clubs do not sign players, they buy them - which may as well be how the rest of the world looks at these things. She tries to show love to all her Habs, since there will always be rival teams to hate on them. This means that yes, she is in the minority of people who has never given up on Carey Price, because you don't give up on a Montreal Canadien. (She almost came close this one time, but she has never given up. It's a Rick Astley kind of love.) Her seemingly endless pop culture references come from a love for television that has even deeper roots than her love of hockey.

~czechtacular is the one who pushed Rookie to get this blog, and a Twitter, and thus a great service to the Habs' online world was complete. She herself does post sometimes but very rarely, often gargling up random information stemming from minor pro to major junior hockey. Pro-underdog trendsetter and founder of the now 1500+ liked Guy Boucher Facebook page that mere months ago didn't even show up in search results, you'll usually find her going off the page in rants about people you've barely heard of. And loving it.